Thursday, December 19, 2002

I love course evaluations. It's my opportunity to be anonymously bitter. Many of you know how I hate the image quality of the images the path dept uses and so I made a point to make that clear. And how I think tutorials are a waste of student and professor time and I'm told many of the profs are really mean in these sessions. I guess I sort of lucked out. it will all be over soon...
~me~ at 10:28 AM

Sunday, December 15, 2002

Ouch! I just read something very disturbing. The treatment of choice to treat acromegaly (pituitary adenoma secreting excess growth hormone in an adult) is something called Trans-sphenoidal surgery. Sounded relatively bland...you know, yet another slice and dice operation surgeons like to do...until I read the explanation. First of all, I realize you probably don't care to know about this but I feel the need to share my newfound knowledge with the masses. The simple explanation: just pop the tumor out through the nose. again, ouch! Now, these things can be < or > than 1 cm so the ouch factor obviously increases when you thing of those macroadenomas. OH and a complication (there's always complications) is cerebrospinal fluid leaking out of your nose which can lead to meningitis. CSF should normally be clear which begs the question, when your nose starts running, how do you know if it's fluid draining from the sinuses or brain fluid? I suppose if you start noticing nervous system problems, it's csf but that's just a guess.
~me~ at 3:13 PM